Can-opener.



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CAN OPENER.

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CYRUS L. TISDALE, 0F MCNEILII, MISSISSIPPI.

CAN-OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed January 19,1907. Serial No- 353,154.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that CYRUS L. TISDALE, a citizen of the United States,residing at McNeill, in the county of Pearl River and State ofMississippi, has invented certain new and useful Improvements inGan-Openers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an improved can opener which can be socheaply made that it may be given away as an article with each can ofgoods sold, and which will be, durable and efficient in operation andnot possess the expensive characteristics. as well as otherdisadvantageous features that are incident to the types of cans known asrip-seam.

With this and other objects in View, as will more fully appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions ofthe parts that will-be hereinafter described and particularly pointedout in the appended claim.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result, reference is to be had to the followingdescription and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the application of my improved can; Fig.2 is a perspective view of the can opener detached; and, Fig. 3 is aside elevation thereof.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the and then, by the backand forth rocking motion which is well known, the top of the can may becut around the edge, the notch 4 resting at the exact edge of the canbody and forming a guide for the blade 5 which carries it.

A device of this character may be very cheaply made, and it is eflicientin operation and may be used repeatedly with cans of different sizes.

I am aware that it is not broadly new with me to form can openers ofwire or a single piece of metal doubled upon itself and sharpened at oneend to form a blade, and I do not claim such construction, but

What I do claim is:

As an improved article of manufacture, the herein described can openerconsisting of a single strip of metal doubled upon itself at one end toform the loop 2, thence returned at its extremity in a plane at rightangles to the loop and flattened to produce the blade 3, said bladebeing offset slightly from the part of the strip from which it extendsand occupying a plane substantially midway of the loop, and the saidloop being formed at its outer end and at one side with a notch 4, asand for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CYRUS L. TISDALE. [L. S.]

Witnesses:

.T. M. Lorne, A. B. HERRING.

